Quote Originally Posted by Nizzi View Post
Giving the healers a few more DPS buttons they had in the past or new ones to reduce 1-1-1-1 would help the role, actually. What's up with tanks who always insist that we shouldn't be able to have the fun they and DPS jobs are having? If you think this is so fun and engaging, why aren't YOU playing it instead of WAR?
I love being personnaly attacked by someone who on her caracter sheet has only BLM leveled.

But to answer to your question, back in HW :
-The astrologian never got such dps tools you mention.
-The White Mege used to got a AOE dot, which was also used on single target.
-The Schoolar was a summoner with a fairy who healed.

Also, back in HW, you've got cleric stance, which prevent you to heal or to deal dommage depend if it was on or off. I think this skill was very intimidating for newbies (at least it was for me), so i spend most of my time standing still (back in time i didn't do ex but only Mach series raid as healer) because i feared something would happen and i would not be able to do something (you can tell i was a newbie).

Today i mostly tank and DPS because I got friends who enjoy more healing as me in HL content, and also because most of the time, in PF, tanks are more missing than healers. But it doesn't change the fact I enjoy learning to have less GCD heal to my content as healer (Schoolar mostly).

Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
As a tank myself. No, it isn't. Having arbitrary mechanics that simply force my existence are neither fun nor engaging because I'm a gimped DPS for 95% of the fight except for that 5% where I have to tank something.
It's your point, i got mine, we disagree on. I don't think one of us is more right than the other.